Does this mean that UK residents now all live in a virtual yellow submarine?...20 fathoms under water, with no one at the helm?...with the keys for the emergency hatch under the possession of a guy named Bubba, who also happens to be the only one with a machine gun onboard?
Are they going to start sending notifications of their organizational change through spam, just like my current corporate VPs like to do through e-mail?
"The organization changes announced by Boris Brezgnoff represent a positive signal to all of our stakeholder groups - investors, clients and especially zombie PC owners - that we are repositioning our african operations to pursue accelerated growth. These changes will facilitate the cross-pollination of expertise we have developed across Nigeria. These changes will also enable further refinement of our global delivery strategy as we increase intra- and inter-business unit communication and pursue cross-business unit opportunities.
To deliver on this strategy and in recognition of their contribution to our past growth, the following leadership changes will be effective as of July 15, 2008:
Ivan Lebovich will assume the position of DDOS Extortion Vice President, Southern Hemisphere. Ivan's deep understanding of all of our services - particularly our Tier 2 and Tier 3 business - and his ability to develop strong relationships with key accounts will help expand our penetration of clients based in the southern hemisphere. His passion for the global delivery of our IT services and his excellent ongoing relationship with our primary nearshore USDS (Untraceable Spam Delivery System) accounts - South Africa and Malaysia - ensures the effective management of this critical delivery centre. I personally want to thank Ivan for his many years of dedicated service to the FIRM (Free Internet Russian Mafia) and look forward to working with him as he takes on this promotion to business unit leader."
Well, if they start by requiring the would be hacker to "prove" himself (or herself?) worthy by doing something illegal, they can then blackmail him into doing more. I would assume that criminal activities start before the end of the studies. If the studies ever get completed, that is.
I think most people still equate protecting your privacy with being somewhat paranoid. This attitude needs to be changed to being simply prudent about what information you are willing to divulge about yourself. There are some very simple real-life examples of times you need to choose not to let other people know what you are doing and saying, not because you are a criminal, but because somebody else could be and you dont want to expose yourself needlessly.
I once asked my accountant about what he was going to do with the hard-drives contained in the old computers he was about to throw away. It hadn't occured to him that somebody could be digging up valuable info from what he considered scrap. It didn't take him long to realise what the risks were.
People will in time develop sensitivity and common-sense about privacy, but they first need to be thaught about the value of information. Most./ers already know about this because information is what we live by and for.
You know, not only gamers use high end computers. Some of us use them as tools to actually work and earn money. in which case, we (or our employer) accumulates enough money to buy such things as quad-cores CPU, and eventually make them profitable, that is, use them to earn more money than they cost!
What's even better is that these machines, once work is over, can still be used to play games!
Fantastic isn't it? Work - maybe you should try it sometime.
No, low frequency ultrasound means they just speak to the jaw gently until they convince it to regrow a new tooth.
It's the canadian way; american scientists would come to the same results by menacing the offending jawbone with a large-caliber pistol and shouting at it.
Is it possible to stop discussing this Dvorak guy's article entirely? He's been flooding the net with bullshit theories for a while now, and the consensus here is that he is a shill / troll / moron. If he hadn't been writing for deadtree magazines for years, nobody would give him any credit. His ideas are bad, he just speaks louder than the others to get attention and sell adspace for whoever who works for. Giving him more web presence doesnt seem like a solution to me.
I dont understand what is so idiotic about this question. Maybe if you think its so stupid its because you cant appreciate the underlying issues. I happen to think this a VERY important and interesting question, one that reaches for multiple level of answers (cultural, ethical, political) and not just technical like most usual "Ask Slashdot" how-would-you-do-this questions.
I also take the the time to reply to what seems to be a troll because it has been moderated high enough to warrant a reply on the behalf of the people who think that "This is stupid" is not a valid answer to the big, though questions we face as a technology minded bunch.
I personally dont know what the effects of a regionalized internet will be, because I havent had a good discussion about it yet. Which is also why I am happy to read the answers listed here by my fellow/.ers.
Which makes me think, maybe after spending so much of his own money on Gentoo he took the Microsoft offer for a G.O.O.D. job. After he made enough money and paid back his creditors, he just dumped them and went back home to a place he knows will provide him with just enough salary to feed his family and pay the mortgage. Exit MS, exit OSS, hello worry-free life.
(GOOD job = Get-Out-Of-Debt job)
So I dont expect him to appear on the radar anymore. Ciao Dan, and thanks for all the ebuilds.
What you call a misfeature or malfeature, I call a design flaw. Its not the code that is the problem, its the idea behind it. Why invent new words when there already are ones that express the same idea, in more powerful terms?
I also prefer my words because they point to someone, or a group of people, the designers who made wrong decisions during the creative process. So you can go back to them, and have them assume responsibilty for their mistake. Misfeature makes it sound like it somehow is the machine's fault.
He must have seriously reduced the reliability of the drive doing so. It still works, for now. Give it a few months, though and it'll start to wither.
A friend had once removed the entire sealing rubber strip around his HDD (circa 1995) because it was coming off by bits anyway and we were all very impressed that it was still working! But after a few weeks, he started to lose more and more data.
With hard drives, errors are not as black and white as with CPU or other "live" components of the computer. Most of what you need (and what can be damaged) on a HD is dormant and thus, hard to know the exact moment of failure.
1) It's spelled Carmack, not Caramack. 2) From what I read in previous posts, Q4 is using a derivative of the Doom3 engine, and was built by Raven, not id soft. So Carmack probably isn't there to push for a port to OS X, although I concede it should be quite easy if they already have it running on Linux. Unless they are heavily x86 dependent in which case a PPC port could mean a few more months of coding and optimization. They'd probably make more money out of it too than the Linux version since Mac people are more willing to pay for software than OSS people.
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Does this mean that UK residents now all live in a virtual yellow submarine? ...20 fathoms under water, with no one at the helm? ...with the keys for the emergency hatch under the possession of a guy named Bubba, who also happens to be the only one with a machine gun onboard?
Are they going to start sending notifications of their organizational change through spam, just like my current corporate VPs like to do through e-mail?
"The organization changes announced by Boris Brezgnoff represent a positive signal to all of our stakeholder groups - investors, clients and especially zombie PC owners - that we are repositioning our african operations to pursue accelerated growth. These changes will facilitate the cross-pollination of expertise we have developed across Nigeria. These changes will also enable further refinement of our global delivery strategy as we increase intra- and inter-business unit communication and pursue cross-business unit opportunities.
To deliver on this strategy and in recognition of their contribution to our past growth, the following leadership changes will be effective as of July 15, 2008:
Ivan Lebovich will assume the position of DDOS Extortion Vice President, Southern Hemisphere. Ivan's deep understanding of all of our services - particularly our Tier 2 and Tier 3 business - and his ability to develop strong relationships with key accounts will help expand our penetration of clients based in the southern hemisphere. His passion for the global delivery of our IT services and his excellent ongoing relationship with our primary nearshore USDS (Untraceable Spam Delivery System) accounts - South Africa and Malaysia - ensures the effective management of this critical delivery centre. I personally want to thank Ivan for his many years of dedicated service to the FIRM (Free Internet Russian Mafia) and look forward to working with him as he takes on this promotion to business unit leader."
How about simplifying the article title to something everybody already knows?
_GIVE_ head to get into the movie business.
There, I fixed it for you.
You are confusing NASA with FASA.
That said, I shall Death-From-Above you with my jet-modified Marauder.
Well, if they start by requiring the would be hacker to "prove" himself (or herself?) worthy by doing something illegal, they can then blackmail him into doing more. I would assume that criminal activities start before the end of the studies. If the studies ever get completed, that is.
Oh yeah, they have a dental plan... Tony, gimme the pliers.
You don't run Gentoo, do you?
Hey, I like that! Oh wait, no, actually I don't.
I think most people still equate protecting your privacy with being somewhat paranoid. This attitude needs to be changed to being simply prudent about what information you are willing to divulge about yourself. There are some very simple real-life examples of times you need to choose not to let other people know what you are doing and saying, not because you are a criminal, but because somebody else could be and you dont want to expose yourself needlessly.
./ers already know about this because information is what we live by and for.
I once asked my accountant about what he was going to do with the hard-drives contained in the old computers he was about to throw away. It hadn't occured to him that somebody could be digging up valuable info from what he considered scrap. It didn't take him long to realise what the risks were.
People will in time develop sensitivity and common-sense about privacy, but they first need to be thaught about the value of information. Most
What mobo did you pick? 800MHz DDR2 or 667MHz DDR2?
Next : World announces to Borland that nobody cares anymore about what they do.
The Microsoft People have Visual Studio. The Java people have Eclipse/NetBeans. The OSS people have gcc, perl and whatnot.
Nobody needs Borland anymore.
If you find about it, let me know. I was wondering too... Maybe they'll release it as an album now that the game is done.
You know, not only gamers use high end computers. Some of us use them as tools to actually work and earn money. in which case, we (or our employer) accumulates enough money to buy such things as quad-cores CPU, and eventually make them profitable, that is, use them to earn more money than they cost!
What's even better is that these machines, once work is over, can still be used to play games!
Fantastic isn't it? Work - maybe you should try it sometime.
No, low frequency ultrasound means they just speak to the jaw gently until they convince it to regrow a new tooth.
It's the canadian way; american scientists would come to the same results by menacing the offending jawbone with a large-caliber pistol and shouting at it.
Yes, all AM2 Athlons (not Semprons) now support Pacifica.
If my design gets selected, does this mean I will get slashdotted too like these poor souls currently are? Seems like a strong deterrent to me.
Is it possible to stop discussing this Dvorak guy's article entirely? He's been flooding the net with bullshit theories for a while now, and the consensus here is that he is a shill / troll / moron. If he hadn't been writing for deadtree magazines for years, nobody would give him any credit. His ideas are bad, he just speaks louder than the others to get attention and sell adspace for whoever who works for. Giving him more web presence doesnt seem like a solution to me.
I dont understand what is so idiotic about this question. Maybe if you think its so stupid its because you cant appreciate the underlying issues. I happen to think this a VERY important and interesting question, one that reaches for multiple level of answers (cultural, ethical, political) and not just technical like most usual "Ask Slashdot" how-would-you-do-this questions.
/.ers.
I also take the the time to reply to what seems to be a troll because it has been moderated high enough to warrant a reply on the behalf of the people who think that "This is stupid" is not a valid answer to the big, though questions we face as a technology minded bunch.
I personally dont know what the effects of a regionalized internet will be, because I havent had a good discussion about it yet. Which is also why I am happy to read the answers listed here by my fellow
Do you think 1989's Tienanmen Square assault footage will be streamable from inside the great firewall of China?
Which makes me think, maybe after spending so much of his own money on Gentoo he took the Microsoft offer for a G.O.O.D. job. After he made enough money and paid back his creditors, he just dumped them and went back home to a place he knows will provide him with just enough salary to feed his family and pay the mortgage. Exit MS, exit OSS, hello worry-free life.
(GOOD job = Get-Out-Of-Debt job)
So I dont expect him to appear on the radar anymore. Ciao Dan, and thanks for all the ebuilds.
I thought the P4 was slower than the P3 when it started because of its lower IPC.
I can't wait to wrap my new computhamster in duct-tape!
Hamster Bater!
What you call a misfeature or malfeature, I call a design flaw. Its not the code that is the problem, its the idea behind it. Why invent new words when there already are ones that express the same idea, in more powerful terms?
I also prefer my words because they point to someone, or a group of people, the designers who made wrong decisions during the creative process. So you can go back to them, and have them assume responsibilty for their mistake. Misfeature makes it sound like it somehow is the machine's fault.
He must have seriously reduced the reliability of the drive doing so. It still works, for now. Give it a few months, though and it'll start to wither.
A friend had once removed the entire sealing rubber strip around his HDD (circa 1995) because it was coming off by bits anyway and we were all very impressed that it was still working! But after a few weeks, he started to lose more and more data.
With hard drives, errors are not as black and white as with CPU or other "live" components of the computer. Most of what you need (and what can be damaged) on a HD is dormant and thus, hard to know the exact moment of failure.
1) It's spelled Carmack, not Caramack.
2) From what I read in previous posts, Q4 is using a derivative of the Doom3 engine, and was built by Raven, not id soft. So Carmack probably isn't there to push for a port to OS X, although I concede it should be quite easy if they already have it running on Linux. Unless they are heavily x86 dependent in which case a PPC port could mean a few more months of coding and optimization. They'd probably make more money out of it too than the Linux version since Mac people are more willing to pay for software than OSS people.